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| Matt Damon wears old man makeup and blubbers at Arlington, in "Saving Private Ryan." |
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| All the Ewoks sing and the Jedi ghosts wave bye-bye, in "Return of the Jedi." |
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| Yay, Dekkard isn't really a replicant and his girlfriend isn't about to die after all! Yaaay. The studio version of 'Blade Runner.' |
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| The hobbits take waaaaaaay too long to shut up in "the Return of the King." |
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| Neo goes all Jesusy at the end of "The Matrix: Revolutions." Oh, wait, no, that whole movie sucked. |
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| The birds mellow out (unlike in the book, where they're really going to kill everybody) in Hitchock's "the Birds." |
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| Tom Hanks gets off the rock, but takes a full forty minutes to realize he should've married Wilson, in 'Castaway.' |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Greekfreak wrote: |
| Woland wrote: |
| Greekfreak wrote: |
| ...and the American re-make of "The Vanishing", which has a happy ending. |
This was truly evil on Verhoeven's part. |
Wrong director. Sluizer. |
You're right - and we can see what happened to his career for it; people mix him up with Verhoeven. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
Good Will Hunting. "I have to see about a girl"??? Jeebus!
EDIT: No, wait... Dead Poets Society... "Oh Captain, My Captain" as they all stand on the desks....  yeah, like they're not gonna get their backsides tanned when they sit the hell down (all except that red headed kid who stayed sat) |
I'm not if it's just the endings with those two movies...both of which stunk. Good Will Hunting was one of those movies that was built entirely on one semi-intrguing idea. The smartest guy at this Ivy League school is the janitor. Oooooh. The irony. Must be some really interesting story behind that. Nope. If I remember correctly the guy had some family issues and simply needed to be told, "It's not your fault" twenty times in twenty seconds. How close was that to the end?-because that's where I almost threw up.
I liked Kermo's example of the Japanese movie with the "it was a tie" ending. But it's a bit of a different situation from when a movie's story ends badly. The story sounded fine and the story's ending was okay, it was more like someone explaining a joke right after they told it. Even though the joke might be funny on its own, with the immediate explanation afterwards, the humor is killed. I felt the same way about "Mr. Holland's Opus." Not the best movie anyway, but the ending killed any redeaming values it could have had. A student basically explains the whole point of the movie as if the audience couldn't piece it together-that Mr. Holland's work was not just one composition but a lifetime of changing people's lives. |
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